Queen (Toronto Subway)

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Northwest entrance to the station

Queen is an underground subway station in Toronto . It lies on the Yonge-University line of the Toronto Subway , at the intersection of Yonge Street and Queen Street . The station has side platforms and is used by an average of 48,010 passengers every day (2015).

The Simpson Tower (headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company ), Eaton Center shopping mall , Old Town Hall and City Hall are nearby . There are transfer options to eight bus routes as well as to the 501 and 502 trams. Queen is also one of five stations connected to the PATH tunnel system.

Both platforms are decorated with murals by John Boyle: The congruent works of art are named Our Nell and thematize the history of the area, with depictions of Nellie McClung , John Graves Simcoe and the Simpson's and Eaton's department stores.

history

View of the mural Our Nell in the background

The station opened on March 30, 1954 along with the Union - Eglinton section , the oldest subway on Canadian soil.

A special feature is the second station level, which was never put into operation. During World War II , the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) planned a tram tunnel under Queen Street that would cross the subway. The residents of Toronto voted in a referendum in January 1946 with 89% in favor of the project. Due to a lack of funding from the federal government, the construction project had to be postponed again and again. During the construction of the subway station, a second level for the tram was completed in the shell . Construction work on the adjacent tunnels was not carried out, however, as the TTC gave higher priority to the construction of the Bloor-Danforth line, which ran further north . In the decades that followed, the Queen Street Tunnel project fell into disuse. The unfinished section of the station is now occasionally used as a storage room.

Web links

Commons : Queen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Subway ridership, 2015. (PDF; 84 kB) Toronto Transit Commission, accessed December 7, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Art on the TTC. Transit Toronto, March 17, 2009, accessed July 26, 2010 .
  3. ^ Early Subway Proposals. Transit Toronto, 2006, accessed May 10, 2010 .
  4. ↑ A History of the Original Yonge Subway. Transit Toronto, December 8, 2009, accessed July 26, 2010 .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 39 '8.9 "  N , 79 ° 22' 45.3"  W.